A recent project I was working on required absolute positioning and while waiting for Valves lighthouse and Facebooks to open source it’s tracking solutions I thought I’d take a primitive stab at EM (electro magnetic) positioning using a phone magnetometer purely for the purpose of learning the challenges involved. I’m an experienced software developer and a hobbyist hardware hacker, so I tried solving most problems using software where possible. Continue reading
Arduino
Building a clock based on Arduino
StandardI keep hearing smart watches, wearables, internet of things etc. which got me thinking about the hardware and embedded systems used to create them. As much as I love soldering and reading resister codes I’m ashamed to say the most complicated thing I’ve made was an FM transmitter.
Since I had an Arduino lying around I decided to build a watch to learn more about the hardware side of things. The plan was to build a POC clock using the Arduino and then shrink it to a watch using an ATtiny .
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